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The lives of children during COVID-19

The lives of children during COVID-19

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 In episode 6 of the Generation Pandemic podcast we're looking at the lived experience of children in the UK and Ireland during the pandemic. Joining host Catherine McDonald are Dr Aisling Murray, Senior Research Officer on the Growing Up in Ireland study team; Aoife McNamara, Participation and Rights Education Co-ordinator at the Ombudsman for Children's Office in Ireland; and Dr Louise Moore, Research and Impact Manager at The Children's Society. The panel discuss first hand accounts from children about their experiences, look at the nuanced effects of the things they've missed and highlght the need for our young people to keep talking.    Transcript Catherine McDonald  0:04  Hello and welcome to Generation Pandemic, a podcast from the Interdisciplinary Child Wellbeing Network looking at the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on children in the UK and Ireland. I'm Catherine McDonald, and today we're looking at the lived experiences of children during the pandemic. Joining me are Dr. Aisling Murray, Senior Research Officer on the Growing Up in Ireland study team. Aoife McNamara, Participation and Rights Education Coordinator at the Ombudsman for Children's Office in Ireland. And Dr. Louise Moore, Research and Impact Manager at the Children's Society. I began by asking Aoife, what she felt had been the main effects of COVID-19? Aoife McNamara  0:46  I'd say the biggest impact really has been on education. So this was particularly highlighted in our No Filter survey. So 1389 children from 23 different schools across Ireland took part and 8 out of 10 of those children felt that COVID had had an impact on their education. Probably as well, one of the biggest things is that they missed out on those extracurricular activities that happen after school with 60% of children saying that restrictions had a major impact on things like sports training, school trips, choir, drama, those sorts of things. And interestingly, as well, the survey drew attention to the fact that while a lot of the restrictions in schools eased in 2021, since September 2021, over a quarter of children reported, having missed more than two weeks of school as a result of COVID-19 and 29% have missed between one and two weeks, so that we're still seeing the impacts of this ongoing. And we do believe that this has had a major impact on children's mental health. So one child said in the survey, that she felt that more and more children felt stressed at home than they did at school as a no support. And potentially no one at home was able to help them. And this child said that left her feeling hopeless. We also really looked in depth at the school closures through our child rights impact assessment. And it really underscored how much we rely on schools and professionals working in schools. And this really had an impact on children's rights. So the top line kinda findings of our children's rights impact assessment was that school closures had predominantly negative effects on children's right to education. And those experiencing educational disadvantage were disproportionately affected. It also had a negative impact on children's right to the highest attainable standard of health, including on their mental health and had an impact as well on their right to adequate nutrition. As school closures meant that food provided under school meals programmes didn't happen, or didn't reach children who might have otherwise received it. And shockingly, really, the school closures together with other lockdown measures increase children's exposure to harm and abuse, including domestic violence, and that the school closures really reduced the opportunities for a school-based professional to identify, monitor and report on child protection and welfare concerns. Catherine McDonald  3:05  It's such a complex picture, isn't it? I mean, already, there's so much there. Aisling, does this resonate with what the Growing Up in Ireland study team have found? Aisling Murray  3:15  Yeah, so I certainly recognise themes there. Growing Up in Ireland has two cohorts of children and young people that we've been following since 2007. So suppose we're in a good position to in the future, consider how things were before and after COVID, if you like, but in December 2020, we did a short online survey for both our cohorts who would have been aged 12 and 22, approximately at the time, just to kind of get a snapshot of how things had changed for them as a result of COVID. So we could get that contemporary information. And yes, certainly disruptions to usual activities, especially activities outside the home were common, large portions of both children and young adults were saying they were doing fewer cultural activities, like Aoife mentioned, and they'd have done pre-pandemic. They had more screen time than they would have usually had quite a few were doing sort of more sports and exercise and they'd normally have, but it was more common for young adults and children to say ...
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